#pseudoscorpion — Public Fediverse posts
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@colinburgess @stojg Ah, that insane photo. I've seen that before. I expect that weasel was probably about as freaked out as the woodpecker.
Here's another moth hitch-hiker from the Boyle where I found my springtail. We often get pseudoscorpions riding in on the moths.
This moth had the misfortune of having a pseudoscorpion hanging onto its face.
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@colinburgess @stojg Ah, that insane photo. I've seen that before. I expect that weasel was probably about as freaked out as the woodpecker.
Here's another moth hitch-hiker from the Boyle where I found my springtail. We often get pseudoscorpions riding in on the moths.
This moth had the misfortune of having a pseudoscorpion hanging onto its face.
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CW: Content Warning Arachnids
Neobisium carcinoides Almindelig Mosskorpion
Moss Neobisid#Arachtober
#Entomology
#Arthropods
#ArthroBeauty
#PseudoscorpionAnother moss shaking find. The quality of the pictures reminds me that I ought to shake some moss again soon. My newer camera would, hopefully, do these peculiar little arachnids more justice.
If they would sit still.
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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New sign on #BlackMountain #Canberra. A couple of the species are rather optimistic for the location, but it's a really nice selection. Even a #pseudoscorpion ...
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Things I found under a polypore.
A single shelf fungus can support a community of organisms--living in and on it. Here I found three beetles and a pseudoscorpion. The very tiny rove beetle (genus Gyrophaena) and shining fungus beetle (genus Scaphisoma) are dependent on fungi. The larger beetle is a clown beetle (genus Platysoma)--they live under bark and feed on fly and beetle larvae.
#biodiversity #beetles #insects #macrophotography #fungi #polypore #pseudoscorpion #ecology #nature
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Things I found under a polypore.
A single shelf fungus can support a community of organisms--living in and on it. Here I found three beetles and a pseudoscorpion. The very tiny rove beetle (genus Gyrophaena) and shining fungus beetle (genus Scaphisoma) are dependent on fungi. The larger beetle is a clown beetle (genus Platysoma)--they live under bark and feed on fly and beetle larvae.
#biodiversity #beetles #insects #macrophotography #fungi #polypore #pseudoscorpion #ecology #nature
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No big deal, just out here finding new locales and new species all the time...but sure, fuck over our funding. If we don't know they exist we don't have to worry about protecting them, duuuuuh.
(This pseudoscorpion today was quite the surprise! Identification TBD.)
#saltyTake #species #diversity #biodiversity #cave #caves #caving #soil #ecology #pseudoscorpion
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A cave pseudoscorpion, probably Chitrella archeri.
#cave #caves #caving #speleology #biology #nature #pseudoscorpion #entomology -
Tiny #roundworms carve out unique parasitic niche inside #pseudoscorpion's protective covering https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tiny-roundworms-unique-parasitic-niche.html
Ectoparasitic nematodes developing in the integument of a Baltic amber pseudoscorpion https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2341848
"In a parasitic first, a Baltic #amber specimen has revealed that millions of years ago, tiny worms known as #nematodes were living inside of and feeding on the outer protective layer of #pseudoscorpions."
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Tiny #roundworms carve out unique parasitic niche inside #pseudoscorpion's protective covering https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tiny-roundworms-unique-parasitic-niche.html
Ectoparasitic nematodes developing in the integument of a Baltic amber pseudoscorpion https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2341848
"In a parasitic first, a Baltic #amber specimen has revealed that millions of years ago, tiny worms known as #nematodes were living inside of and feeding on the outer protective layer of #pseudoscorpions."
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My favourite NZ observation on #iNaturalist from the last couple of days is this stable fly photographed at Waihi by helenmacky.
It's a handsome enough fly, and it's a good photo, but what makes it stand out is the gang of at least seven pseudoscorpions all hitching a ride on it.
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My favourite NZ observation on #iNaturalist from the last couple of days is this stable fly photographed at Waihi by helenmacky.
It's a handsome enough fly, and it's a good photo, but what makes it stand out is the gang of at least seven pseudoscorpions all hitching a ride on it.
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I (badly) photographed this (currently identified) #Noctuidae species in #Merimbula #NSW. It was only when I transferred the images to my laptop that I saw the #pseudoscorpion crawling away - presumably it arrived by phoresis on the #moth - and how attractive the small beetle (#Staphylinidae) is with its pearly elytra.
Sorry not to have got a closer look at the pseudoscorpion - I love them so much.
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I (badly) photographed this (currently identified) #Noctuidae species in #Merimbula #NSW. It was only when I transferred the images to my laptop that I saw the #pseudoscorpion crawling away - presumably it arrived by phoresis on the #moth - and how attractive the small beetle (#Staphylinidae) is with its pearly elytra.
Sorry not to have got a closer look at the pseudoscorpion - I love them so much.
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Don't you hate it when you pop down to your favourite flower for a refreshing sip of nectar, only to get a pseudoscorpion stuck to your face?
Freeloading floral hitchhikers!
Student Dustin Lamont found this pseudoscorpion attached to the probscis of the native NZ moth Pseudocoremia lupinata, on our ecology field trip to the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre in the Southern Alps last week.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/198463770
#LinconUniversityNZ #insects #phoresy #pseudoscorpion #arachnid #nz #nature
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Don't you hate it when you pop down to your favourite flower for a refreshing sip of nectar, only to get a pseudoscorpion stuck to your face?
Freeloading floral hitchhikers!
Student Dustin Lamont found this pseudoscorpion attached to the probscis of the native NZ moth Pseudocoremia lupinata, on our ecology field trip to the Boyle Outdoor Education Centre in the Southern Alps last week.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/198463770
#LinconUniversityNZ #insects #phoresy #pseudoscorpion #arachnid #nz #nature
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Pseudoscorpions are so cool. This one is a Hesperochernes sp.
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I was looking through my photos from my run yesterday and looked closer at this photo of a NZ large hoverfly. It has a #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride on its foot!
The Common Naturalist has an article diving into the biology of pseudoscorpions and their habit of hitching a ride on other insects. Evidence from fossil amber shows that they've been doing this for at least 44 million years.
https://commonnaturalist.com/2021/05/14/hitchhiking-pseudoscorpions/
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I was looking through my photos from my run yesterday and looked closer at this photo of a NZ large hoverfly. It has a #pseudoscorpion hitching a ride on its foot!
The Common Naturalist has an article diving into the biology of pseudoscorpions and their habit of hitching a ride on other insects. Evidence from fossil amber shows that they've been doing this for at least 44 million years.
https://commonnaturalist.com/2021/05/14/hitchhiking-pseudoscorpions/
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CW: As a bonus, here's a pseudoscorpion that was hitching a ride on one of the moths that arrived at our moth light.
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CW: As a bonus, here's a pseudoscorpion that was hitching a ride on one of the moths that arrived at our moth light.
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To go through life with no eyes but really massive pinching claws. (New photo from Val Verde Co, Texas)
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To go through life with no eyes but really massive pinching claws. (New photo from Val Verde Co, Texas)
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CW: cw: bugs (pseudoscorpion photo)
Met a tiny #pseudoscorpion on our wall! To give you an idea of how tiny, that wall texture is smooth rolled paint. As you can see he is very fierce. #bugstodon
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CW: cw: bugs (pseudoscorpion photo)
Met a tiny #pseudoscorpion on our wall! To give you an idea of how tiny, that wall texture is smooth rolled paint. As you can see he is very fierce. #bugstodon
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CW: Arachnid illustration (cute pseudoscorpion: beware!)
I did this #Pseudoscorpion ink sketch a few years back. I love pseudoscorpions because a) they are so very smol, b) they have such cute oversized face hands, and c) they are a rare treat that you generally only see when you’ve had an especially good time playing in leaf litter.
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CW: Arachnid illustration (cute pseudoscorpion: beware!)
I did this #Pseudoscorpion ink sketch a few years back. I love pseudoscorpions because a) they are so very smol, b) they have such cute oversized face hands, and c) they are a rare treat that you generally only see when you’ve had an especially good time playing in leaf litter.
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There are few soil organisms more wonderful than Pseudoscorpions, it's always a joy to find one when I'm out with my camera!
This stout little murder machine is a compost chernes (Pselaphochernes scorpioides), found on decaying leaves in an open compost heap.
#MacroPhotography #SoilFauna #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #MesoFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology
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There are few soil organisms more wonderful than Pseudoscorpions, it's always a joy to find one when I'm out with my camera!
This stout little murder machine is a compost chernes (Pselaphochernes scorpioides), found on decaying leaves in an open compost heap.
#MacroPhotography #SoilFauna #Pseudoscorpion #Arachnid #MesoFauna #SoilBiodiversity #SoilEcology
